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What really makes the trio’s music work? “We listen to each other.
No one in the trio needs to be a star,” Payne says. “It is a true
collaboration.”
The trio’s genre is “free or improvisational jazz,” where nothing is
predetermined, and all the music created is spontaneously
improvised. Pianist Lennie Tristano recorded the first free group
improvisations in 1949 for Capitol Records, a radical event for that
period of time.
Below: Carol Liebowitz (far
left), Bill Payne, Eva Lindal,
and poet Mark Weber at
Scholes Street Studio in
Brooklyn in May 2015.
“There is no real form to this genre of music,” explains Payne, “and
that sometimes makes it difficult for audiences to relate to it.”
Interested musicians often avoid giving it any label at all. Fans come
with no preconceptions, no expectations, and remain open to the
creative journey the musicians provide.
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Payne says visual art audiences are often more accepting of
abstract art work as a creative form than they are of improvised
music. “Our eyes seem to be much more ahead of our ears,” he
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